RBCM Archives

Indian Salmon Weir, Cowichan River, V.I [Vancouver Island] (Rear view)

Indian school. Cowichan. Vancouver Island.

Indian Totem, and Chiefs House at Comox. Vancouver Island.

Indian Totems - and huts, and stands for drying compressed blackberries. Comox Indian Village, Vancouver Island. (The upper and second figures have dresses on them of the highest [cotton?])

Indian underground house. Indian Salmon Caches. Yale. Fraser River.

Indian Village Comox Vancouver Island. The highest carving has a carved wooden head suspended by the sinew of a deer in memory of his brave and daring feat in [waying? waylaying?] a family of eleven indians, men, women, and children and bringing their heads home to his lodge as trophies of his prowess. Berries were drying on the rude structures in front of their houses, made or pressed into cakes for winter use.

Indian Village Cowichan. Vancouver Island (east coast). No. 104.

Indians at a Potlach [potlatch]. Songish [Songhees] tribe. The distribution of blankets, muskets etc. at a grand distribution feast or potlach."

Indians at Lytton B.C. Indian group at Lytton where the Thompson River joins the Fraser River. Indian Chief in Buckskin coat and fur hat also Indian woman nourishing her child in a basket cradle. These indians [sic] ride on horseback and differ very much from the Vancouver Island Indians who do not possess horses.

Indians encamped. Indian hut at Chapmans [Chapman's] Bar, Fraser River, Brit. Columbia. no. 47

Indians encamped. Fraser River. Do not go near an encampment after the inhabitants have left it, for fear of vermin.

Indians on Banks of Frazer [Fraser] River. New Westminster

Indians picking hops Vancouver Island. Near to Victoria

Indians shamming to be at prayer for the sake of photography. Fraser River . At the priests request all the Indians kneel down and assume an attitude of devotion. Amen.

[Indicated by arrows]: Herrings drying. Hut of mats. Indian man. Indian woman in blanket. Three canoes. A cove in Esquimalt Harbour, Vancouver Island, shewing [sic] an Indian family encamped during the herring season.